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crevice

noun

  1. narrow opening at a split or crack in rock
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

    [T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.

    16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

  2. The vagina.

    […] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

  1. To crack; to flaw.

    they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall

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